William MacAskill
William MacAskill is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Oxford University and a Senior Research Fellow at the Global Priorities Institute. He is the author of the 2022 book What We Owe the Future.
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Spaceguard shows that we can manage risks to the extinction of humanity — if only we put our mind to it.